{"id":14237,"date":"2011-06-29T12:37:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T04:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=14237"},"modified":"2011-06-29T12:37:09","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T04:37:09","slug":"yummy-toddler-foods-banana-blueberry-popsicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2011\/06\/29\/yummy-toddler-foods-banana-blueberry-popsicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Yummy Toddler Foods: Banana-Blueberry Popsicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Annabel Karmel&#8217;s suggestions for using various fruit combinations in making popsicles (aka ice lollies), I was inspired to try it at home :)<\/p>\n<p>Just over last weekend, I finally chanced upon a set of popsicle moulds at Plaza Singapura&#8217;s Spotlight and bought it immediately.\u00a0Yang\u00a0told me that I was\u00a0a happy camper for the rest of the day. :P<\/p>\n<p>As I have leftover bananas and blueberries at home, I saw that the stars are almost all aligned for popsicle-making when I saw Martha Stewart&#8217;s online\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marthastewart.com\/335598\/banana-blueberry-swirl-popsicles\" target=\"_blank\">recipe<\/a>. I just need to get yoghurt that&#8217;s all. I made one slight change to her recipe in order to make the her already healthy popsicles\u00a0better &#8211; substitute sugar with honey or pure maple syrup. :) I chose Farmers Union Greek Style yoghurt as recommended by the mommy of Food 4 Tots who has a <a href=\"http:\/\/food-4tots.com\/2010\/08\/13\/cherry-yogurt-popsicles\/\" target=\"_blank\">recipe<\/a> for making popsicles too. Below is my recipe for\u00a0banana-blueberry popsicles.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14245\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14245\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14245\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/banana-blueberry-popsicle-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/banana-blueberry-popsicle-3.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/banana-blueberry-popsicle-3-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My first popsicle! :D<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ingredients (makes about 3-4 popsicles)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Banana \u2013 2 large and ripened for 2-3 days, peeled<\/p>\n<p>Blueberries \u2013 \u00bd box<\/p>\n<p>Yoghurt (Farmers Union Greek Style) \u2013 \u00be cup<\/p>\n<p>Lemon juice \u2013 squeezed from \u00bc lemon<\/p>\n<p>Honey \u2013 1 tbsp<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Method<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1) Blend bananas until smooth.<\/p>\n<p>2) Squeeze in lemon juice, add yoghurt and honey and blend further to combine all ingredients well.<\/p>\n<p>3) Pour out half of the banana mixture and set aside.<\/p>\n<p>4) Add blueberries into the remaining half banana mixture and blend briefly so that the blueberries are coarsely chopped up but not totally disintegrated.<\/p>\n<p>5) Layer the popsicle moulds by alternating the banana mixture (from step 3) and blueberry mixture (from step 4). I did 3 layers with the blueberry mixture in the middle.<\/p>\n<p>6) Use a chopstick \/ satay stick \/ small knife to do a swirl in each mould to create the swirl effect.<\/p>\n<p>7) Cover the moulds and freeze for at least 8 hours.<\/p>\n<p>8) To remove the popsicles, just dip the moulds in hot water briefly and wriggle them out.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed the flavours but both Yang and Hannah didn&#8217;t take to the taste positively. :( Yang didn&#8217;t like yoghurt for its sourness and Hannah probably couldn&#8217;t manage the coldness and also the sourness of the treat. Sigh, I shall try another flavour without yoghurt in my next attempt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Annabel Karmel&#8217;s suggestions for using various fruit combinations in making popsicles (aka ice lollies), I was inspired to try it at home :) Just over last weekend, I finally chanced upon a set of popsicle moulds at Plaza<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2011\/06\/29\/yummy-toddler-foods-banana-blueberry-popsicles\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Yummy Toddler Foods: Banana-Blueberry Popsicles<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,479,7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-baby-recipes","category-children-blues","category-recipes","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-479-id","wpcat-7-id","wpcat-14-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}